O.K Santa, all I want for Christmas is... 300km today 500km yesterday I just noticed that when there is more than one blog update from the same place you can't see it unless you click on the date at the top of the screen. I reckon its difficult but you lot proberly find it easy, just thought I'd tell ya'll in case you have missed something.......sorrry for all the mistakes too, this is the first chance I've really had to read back through all the entries....AN...

Russian Sailor Vs. Finnish Girl - The Final Drinking Showdown 152km I obviously keep a few notes of all the stuff that happens each day in a notebook (pen and paper type notebook not the Apple iBook type) and then update this blog when I find an internet cafe. When I read back the amount of stuff that can happen some days is fn amazng, this day was one of those. First thing I dd was go to the insurance office and met a girl named Jenni there who helped me ou...

Hahahaawaaahaaaaa (evil laugh) 320km And you lot didn't think I could do it! Actually most of you thought I could do it, which is a scary amount of confidence that you have in someone that couldn't plan a going away party let alone a 14000km trip across Russia. My unplanned ways were most welcome in Russia, I got the feeling (mainly after my 20th vodka shot at 11:00am Wednesday morning) that most Russians couldn't give half a rats arse what happens tomor...

You lucky, lucky b******... 620km So I'd skipped Moscow, it was actually always the idea too, I just fooled everyone with the Melbourne to Moscow thing. Moscow is obviously a big crazy city full of people that would like to steal a DR650 and stab a stupid Aussie. But I did ride through of course, just to confirm my thoughts of 'big' and 'crazy'. The traffic came to halt well out of the city and there was some serious lane splitting that reminded me of Japan ...

Europe! 695km Finally I made it to the European continent, or so they tell me. Asia and Europe are divided by a little set of mountains called the Urals for those that don't know. As I was cruising over said mountains dodging trucks in the rain (as usual) I wondered if there was really a massive difference, my English interpreter mate at the Kazack border has told me it would definitely be warmer, but I only half believed it so as to not get my hopes up! A...